Crocosaurus Cove is a

crocodile Crocodiles (family (biology), family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to inclu ...

(and other reptile)

herpetarium A herpetarium is a zoological exhibition space for reptiles and amphibians, most commonly a dedicated area of a larger zoo. A herpetarium which specializes in snakes is an ophidiarium or serpentarium, which are more common as stand-alone entiti ...

and

aquarium An aquarium (plural: ''aquariums'' or ''aquaria'') is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aq ...

zoo located in an indoor complex in the

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of Darwin,

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. Its main focus as the facility's name indicates is the tourism drawcard of the

s of northern Australia. The park has a considerable number of

saltwater crocodile The saltwater crocodile (''Crocodylus porosus'') is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats and brackish wetlands from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been listed ...

s including 700kg and 5.1 metre long male Burt, who appeared in 1986 movie

Crocodile Dundee ''Crocodile Dundee'' (stylized as ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' in the U.S.) is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, and American actress Linda Kozlowski as rep ...

and made news in 2018 for 'psychic predictions' outcomes of the 2018 Soccer World Cup by reaching up and grabbing photographs of players which was seen as match and player performance 'predicting'. The facility has also had success with breeding and hatching baby crocodiles including in July 2022 with baby crocodiles hatched to parent crocodiles female Kate and male William. One of the things most well known at the facility which significantly increased visitor numbers is a 'cage of death' experience where paying visitors can swim in water with large crocodiles while protected from physical contact with them by being enclosed behind a glass safety dome. As previously mentioned a significant number of other native Australian reptiles (and a small number of amphibians and fish) are also kept at the facility and publicly exhibited. Mick Burns the owner is also owner of Darwin Crocodile Farm. The species kept and displayed at the facility are listed below. ;Reptiles (Crocodiles) *

Freshwater crocodile The freshwater crocodile (''Crocodylus johnstoni''), also known as the Australian freshwater crocodile, Johnstone's crocodile or the freshie, is a species of crocodile endemic to the northern regions of Australia. Unlike their much larger Austr ...

Saltwater crocodile The saltwater crocodile (''Crocodylus porosus'') is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats and brackish wetlands from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been listed ...

(Lizards) *

Black-headed monitor The black-headed monitor or black-tailed monitor (''Varanus tristis'') is a relatively small species of monitor lizards native to Australia. It is occasionally also called the mournful monitor, freckled monitor (''Varanus tristis orientalis'') o ...

Centralian blue-tongued skink The Centralian blue-tongued skink or Centralian blue-tongue (''Tiliqua multifasciata'') is a species of skink, occurring predominantly in the far north-west corner of New South Wales, Australia. It is one of six species belonging to the genus '' ...

* Centralian knob-tailed gecko * Centralian tree-dragon * Frilled lizard *

Fringe-toed velvet gecko The fringe-toed velvet gecko (''Oedura filicipoda'') is a gecko endemic to Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding externa ...

Giant cave gecko The giant cave gecko (''Pseudothecadactylus lindneri'') is a gecko endemic to Australia. References Pseudothecadactylus Reptiles described in 1975 Taxa named by Harold Cogger Geckos of Australia {{Diplodactylidae-stub ...

* Hosmer's skink * Inland bearded-dragon * Jewelled velvet-gecko *

Lace monitor The lace monitor or tree goanna (''Varanus varius'') is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach in total length and in weight. The lace monitor is considered to be a least-concern species ...

* Leopard skink *

Long-nosed water dragon ''Gowidon'' is a genus of arboreal lizards in the family Agamidae. It is monotypic with a single recognised species, ''Gowidon longirostris'', commonly known as the long-snouted lashtail or long-nosed water dragon. It is found in Northern Territo ...

Marbled velvet gecko The marbled velvet gecko (''Oedura marmorata'') is a gecko endemic to Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, an ...

Merten's water monitor Mertens' water monitor (''Varanus mertensi''), also called Common name, commonly Mertens's water monitor, and often misspelled Mertin's water monitor, is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Varanidae. The species is Endemism, ende ...

Northern blue-tongued skink The northern blue-tongued skink (''Tiliqua scincoides intermedia'') or northern blue-tongued lizard is the largest and heaviest of the blue-tongued lizards (family Scincidae, genus'' Tiliqua''). They are native to Australia and found almost excl ...

Northern spiny-tailed gecko The northern spiny-tailed gecko (''Strophurus ciliaris'') is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Australia. Etymology The meaning of the scientific name or binomial, ''Strophurus ciliaris'', comes from ...

Perentie The perentie (''Varanus giganteus'') is the largest monitor lizard or goanna native to Australia. It is one of the largest living lizards on earth, after the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor, crocodile monitor, and intersecting by size with Ni ...

Pygmy mulga monitor The pygmy mulga monitor (''Varanus gilleni''), also known as Gillen's monitor or just mulga monitor is a species of lizard in the family Varanidae. Taxonomy A description of the species was presented to the Royal Society of Victoria in 1895 by ...

* Rusty monitor *

Sand goanna The sand goanna (''Varanus gouldii'') is a species of large Australian monitor lizard, also known as Gould's monitor, sand monitor, or racehorse goanna. Taxonomy John Edward Gray described the species in 1838 as ''Hydrosaurus gouldii'', noting ...

* Spencer's monitor *

Spiny-tailed monitor The spiny-tailed monitor (''Varanus acanthurus''), also known as the Australian spiny-tailed monitor, the ridge-tailed monitor the Ackie's dwarf monitor, and colloquially simply ackie monitor, is an Australian species of lizard belonging to the g ...

* Stokes's skink *

Storr's monitor There are two species of lizard named Storr's monitor: * ''Varanus storri Storr's monitor (''Varanus storri'') is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to Australia. Etymology The specific name, ''storri ...

* Western blue-tongued skink * Yellow-throated monitor (Snakes) *

Black-headed python The black-headed python (''Aspidites melanocephalus'') Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . is a species of snake in the Pythonidae (the python family). The species is endemic to A ...

* Bredl's carpet python *

Children's python Children's python (''Antaresia childreni'') is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is named after John George Children. It is a nocturnal species occurring in the northern half of Australia and generally found on ...

* Coastal taipan *

Eastern brown snake The eastern brown snake (''Pseudonaja textilis''), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It was ...

* Inland taipan *

King brown snake The king brown snake (''Pseudechis australis'') is a species of highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae, native to northern, western, and Central Australia. Despite its common name, it is a member of the genus '' Pseudechis'' (black snakes) ...

* Northern carpet python * Northern death adder *

Oenpelli python The Oenpelli python or Oenpelli rock python (''Simalia oenpelliensis'' or ''Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis'') is a species of large snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is endemic to the sandstone massif area of the western Arnhem Land regi ...

Olive python The olive python (''Liasis olivaceus'')
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* Pygmy mulga snake * Rough-scaled python * Slaty-grey snake *

Stimson's python Children's python (''Antaresia childreni'') is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is named after John George Children. It is a nocturnal species occurring in the northern half of Australia and generally found on ...

Water python The water python (''Liasis fuscus'') is a python species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. No subspecies are currently recognized. Like all other pythons, it is not venomous. Taxonomy German naturalist Wilhelm Peters described the water ...

* Western brown snake *

Woma python The woma python (''Aspidites ramsayi''), also known Common name, commonly as Ramsay's python, the sand python,O'Connor F (2008)Western Australian Reptile Species.Birding Western Australia. Accessed 20 September 2007.Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living ...

(Turtles) * Arnhem Land long-necked turtle * Northern long-necked turtle * Northern red-faced turtle * Northern snapping turtle * Northern yellow-faced turtle *

Pig-nosed turtle The pig-nosed turtle (''Carettochelys insculpta''), also known as the pitted-shelled turtle or Fly River turtle, is a species of turtle native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is the only living member of the family Carettoche ...

* Victoria River turtle ;Amphibians *

Cane toad The cane toad (''Rhinella marina''), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania ...

* Green tree frog *

Magnificent tree frog The magnificent tree frog (''Ranoidea splendida''), also known as the splendid tree frog, is a species of tree frog first described in 1977. It has a limited range, only occurring on the north-western coast of Australia in the Northern Territory ...

;Fish *

Banded rainbowfish The banded rainbowfish (''Melanotaenia trifasciata''), also known as the Jewel rainbowfish, Goyder River rainbowfish, three-striped sunfish or regal rainbowfish, is a species of Rainbowfish found in the northerly regions of North Australia and Qu ...

Barramundi The barramundi (''Lates calcarifer'') or Asian sea bass, is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes. The species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, spanning the waters of the Middle East, South ...

* Black catfish * Blackmast * Butler's grunter *

Chequered rainbowfish Check (also checker, Brit: chequer) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the chec ...

* Common archerfish * Fly-specked hardyhead *

Freshwater sawfish The largetooth sawfish (''Pristis pristis'', syn. ''P. microdon'' and ''P. perotteti'') is a species of sawfish, family Pristidae. It is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal regions, but also enters freshwater. It has declined dra ...

Freshwater whipray The freshwater whipray (''Urogymnus dalyensis'') is a little-known species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in a number of large rivers and associated estuaries in northern Australia. Until recently, this species was regarded as a reg ...

Gulf saratoga ''Scleropages jardinii'', the Gulf saratoga, Australian bonytongue , Pearl arowana or northern saratoga, is a freshwater bony fish native to Australia and New Guinea, one of two species of fishes sometimes known as Australian arowana, the other b ...

Indo-Pacific tarpon The Indo-Pacific tarpon (''Megalops cyprinoides''), also known as the oxeye herring or simply herring due to its superficial resemblance to the true herrings, of which it is not a member, is the smaller of the two species of tarpon and lives in ...

Mangrove jack The mangrove red snapper (''Lutjanus argentimaculatus''), also known as mangrove jack, grey snapper, creek red bream, Stuart evader, dog bream, purple sea perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi, is a species ...

* Silver cobbler *

Sooty grunter The sooty grunter (''Hephaestus fuliginosus''), also known by the name black bream, blubberlips, Northern grunter or purple grunter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It inhabits coastal and inland ...

Spotted scat ''Scatophagus argus'', the spotted scat, butterfish, mia mia, spotted butterfish or tiger scat, is a species of fish in the scat family Scatophagidae. It occurs in two basic color morphs which are called green scat and ruby or red scat. This fis ...

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